Improved shoe-string fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIPHALET s. scEiPTUEE, or WILLIAMSBUEG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED SHOE-STRING FASTEER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 66,806, dated July 31,1866.

To atl whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIPHALETS. SCRIP-l TURE, of Williamsburg, Kingscounty, and State of N ew York, have invented a new and Improved ShoeString Fastener; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this speciication, in Which-Figure 1 represents a side elevation of this invention when attached toa shoe. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same in a larger scalethan the previous figure.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates t0 a little spring-catch which, when attached toa shoe or gaiter-boot, serves to hold securely the surplus ends of thelacing-strings after the same have been drawn up snugly.

My spring-catch consists of three parts, viz: an elliptical tiltingspring-button, A, a corrugated spring-washer, B, and a rivet, C. The twosprings are stamped or otherwise produced out of hard-rolled sheet-brassor other suitable material, and they are connected to each otherV and tothe shoe by the rivet C, as shown in the drawings, the spring-button A Ybeing on the outside and the spring-washer B on the inside of the shoe..

After the rivet is secured the endsof the spring-Washer B project justfar enough to give an easy entrance to the string under the ends of thespring-button A and past the ends of the spring B, where they nd reliefby pressing the leather into the corrugations of said spring. Thespring-button A is thereby permitted to fall snugly against the outersurface of the leather after the string has been introduced, and thedanger of its catching in the dress of the person wearing the shoeisavoided.

In passing the string under one end of the spring-button A it tilts,causing the opposite end to press snugger against the leather, and

by this tilting action the operation of introducing the string is stillfurther facilitated.

What I claim as new, and Adesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A Shoestring fastener composed of a tilting spring-button, A, corrugatedspring-washer B, and rivet C, substantially as and for the purpose setforth. Y

ELIPHALET S.l SCRIPTURE.

